I want Amazon and Google to be broken up, but not in this category or along with these lines. This wasn't going to create some household appliance monopoly. Amazon has plenty of competition, and Roomba was already behind the curve.
Now America is out of this market category. A category we invented. This felt like our last toehold in consumer robotics.
Gaming GPUs enabled it. That's random serendipidous connective tissue that was presaged by none of the people who wrote the first papers fifty years ago.
Individual researchers and engineers are pushing forward the field bit by bit, testing and trying, until the right conditions and circumstances emerge to make it obvious. Connections across fields and industries enable it.
Now that the salient has emerged, everyone wants to control it.
Capital battles it out for the chance to monopolize it.
There's a chance that the winner(s) become much bigger than the tech giants of today. Everyone covets owning that.
The battle to become the first multi-trillionaire is why so much money is being spent.
I didn't even read the article and know that the headline is 100% correct.
It's the result of stochastic hill climbing of a vast reservoir of talented people, industry, and science. Each pushing the frontiers year by year, building the infra, building the connective tissue.
We built the collection of requirements that enabled it through human curiosity, random capitalistic process, boredom, etc. It was gaming GPUs for goodness sake that enabled the scale up of the algorithms. You can't get more serendipitous than that. (Perhaps some of the post-WWII/cold war tech even better qualifies for random hill climbing luck. Microwave ovens, MRI machines, etc. etc.)
Machine learning is inevitable in a civilization that has evolved intelligence, industrialization, and computation.
We've passed all the hard steps to this point. Let's see what's next. Hopefully not the great filter.
I don't have a problem with the headline but the article is kind of bad.
And the headline is vague enough that you could read many meanings into it.
My take would be going back to Turing, he could see AI in the future was likely and the output of a Turing complete system is kind of a mathematical function - we just need the algorithms and hardware to crank through it which he thought we might have 50 years on but it's taken nearer 75.
The "intelligence did not get installed. It condensed" stuff reads like LLM slop.
I think you're absolutely right about the easiest approach. I hope you don't mind me asking for a bit more difficulty.
Wouldn't fine tuning produce better results so long as you don't catastrophically forget? You'd preserve more context window space, too, right? Especially if you wanted it to memorize years of facts?
My experience doesn't align with yours. I worked at SendGrid for over a decade and they were on the (micro) service train. I was on call for all dev teams on a rotation for a couple of years and later just for my team.
I have seen like a dozen security updates like you describe.
This was at a fintech and we took every single little vuln with the utmost priority. Triaged by severity of course, but everything had a ticking clock.
We didn't just have multiple security teams, we had multiple security orgs. If you didn't stay in compliance with VULN SLAs, you'd get a talking to.
We also had to frequently roll secrets. If the secrets didn't support auto-rotation, that was also a deployment (with other steps).
We also had to deploy our apps if they were stale. It's dangerous not to deploy your app every month or two, because who knows if stale builds introduced some kind of brittleness? Perhaps a change to some net library you didn't deploy caused the app not to tolerate traffic spikes. And it's been six months and there are several such library changes.
> Cryptids are Turing Machines whose behavior (when started on a blank tape) can be described completely by a relatively simple mathematical rule, but where that rule falls into a class of unsolved (and presumed hard) mathematical problems. This definition is somewhat subjective (What counts as a simple rule? What counts as a hard problem?). In practice, most currently known small Cryptids have Collatz-like behavior. In other words, the halting problem from blank tape of Cryptids is mathematically-hard.
As much as I love Spirited Away and Castle in the Sky, I've been so bummed Miyazaki hasn't returned to more adult storylines.
Princess Mononoke and Nausicaa are two of my top ten films. I'd do anything to have Miyazaki make one more.
I even bought Miramax's old marketing website and kept it online [1].
I was lucky enough to teach English in Hokkaido [2], which is where Ghibli animators drew inspiration for Princess Mononoke. It's such a beautiful place, and you can feel it in the film.
The Wind Rises is my favorite Ghibli, something about it just draws me in like no other. Don't get me wrong, I love Howl's Moving Castle, Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away like the next person, but The Wind Rises is special to me.
If Rust code compiles, it probably has a lower defect rate than corresponding code written by the same team in another language, all else being equal.
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